as for just free. range of free risk free. care free. download free broadcast quality video for your media projects a free video down to r.t. dot com. is a season to go spending as britain's sell spree begins we look at exactly who is pocketing the profits. can tear on the ones that the country is making a dangerous move by following washington taking in the iranian militant group the terrorist. and syrian activists claim a government shelling has killed twenty including children in the north rebel fighters attack areas close to the turkish border.

are you watching r.t. on carried austin now whether you prefer to hit the high street for the best deals or stop offers online this is a day to do it britain's boxing day bargain hunters are out in force and although they're keeping you cased hills ringing you might be surprised to know whose pockets are being lined. has been finding out. proud to be british brits interests alike often pay for their quintessentially british experience says unaware that they're run by foreign companies harrods the dorchester hotel and even the queen's grocer fortnum and mason keeping the fortnum and mason is a british store. it's been here for ages so i assumed it was wholly owned by british people no never mind everything's blown out

you know the reason that things are getting. almost half the companies in the u.k. and now in foreign hands the coalition government in britain likes to talk about the march of the makers have a march of the makers if we're selling of all that is good household names like boots the chemist cadbury's chocolate and weetabix cereal have all been gobbled up by foreign corporations your traditional bacon butty hardly imaginable without h.p. source the name stands for houses of parliament the label even has westminster on it but the white house might be more fitting h.p. now belongs to heinz and as you're spreading your hartley's jam or your son packed peanut butter over your morning toast you might be surprised to learn that these british brands were just bought up by another american company in fact even thames water which comes out of every single tap in and around london now belongs to an

australian company advocates of foreign takeovers say they inject much needed cash into the british economy recently with premier foods not only selling off. pickle selling off. some people and also closing down some of their hovis manufacturing and you know it's interesting what's the reaction a great use for investors although it is bleak news just before christmas. for the workforce two years ago kraft the u.s. food giant swallowed up cadbury's chocolate it was a hostile takeover they slashed four hundred jobs and moved production to poland in the process but there are those that say that the loss of sweets is the least of britain's problems and the loss of control over ports to in this country and around the world where we have a huge network of of good international ports i think is a very serious matter the loss of control over our airports the loss of control

particularly over our energy companies which means decisions about our energy could control and supply and that made in london they're made in paris and or overseas tax havens such as in switzerland when companies take over they often move their headquarters away from the u.k. or look for better advantages in terms of the tax system a good example of that was perhaps the chemist which was a company with a head office in nottingham for one hundred sixty one years and moved to in switzerland where we had revenues of around eighty nine million pounds in corporation tax and they reduced that then to nine billion so burden is then placed on the u.k. tax payer increases an income tax of the eighty or other forms of taxation it has to be found and we're the ones paying for it other nations governments scrutinize every overseas bed france for example argues that it's in their national interest to prevent key technologies falling into foreign hands so while it's often

difficult for a british company to buy abroad over thirty billion pounds worth of domestic companies made their way into foreign hands last year last month westminster said that it wouldn't change any laws but would take a greater interest in foreign acquisitions the only thing is by the time they get around to it there might be nothing left to sell poly boy art c. london. turner on is warning canada that it made a dangerous move by taking a taurus iranian militant group off its terrorist calendar is a following a similar move by the u.s. in accepting that the m e k has renounced violence and wants a peaceful regime change in iran where for national looks at the organizations record and hears from some iranians who where have written izing it mohamed shows me his box of handmade treasures earrings pendants all made from stone the only material he could find in the prison yard big ambition much this is how we kill

time and the pain from torture and hunger and i still get headaches when i remember this time from valley iranian soldier mohammad spent eighteen years in an iraqi jail during the one thousand nine hundred eighty s. iran iraq war he says he would have been freed earlier if he'd joined the ek image he didn't help to realize the militant revolutionary group was fighting iran in authority on the side of saddam hussein and recruiting new members among prisoners but mohamed refused. they were terrorists killing innocent people i couldn't have anything to do with them i betray my country then the group indeed had a very gory history in the one nine hundred sixty s. it started a bombing campaign against iran's shah and his allies they were linked to the killing of american citizens and welcomed the u.s. embassy siege in teheran openly calling for the execution of the hostages. the

terror continued after reason to make revolution with the association of the country's president prime minister along with many politicians and clerics with generous support from hussein fought hard in iran as well as saddam's enemies inside iraq in one nine hundred ninety seven and make a joint america's least of terrorist organizations along with al qaeda and hamas and was cited in arguments for the invasion of iraq today iran iraq still view ek as terrorist group but america's position has now flipped me k. is iran's democratic ah this is just part of the large scale and successful lobby to get any case off the terror least among backers former white house officials army generals and cia chiefs to extremely disturbing this is a this is this at the time was a terrorist group they were supposed to be paying officials and moving money around and yet somebody was turning a blind eye to that campaign i think that potentially is going to have an influence on the u.s. policy towards iran and could get us into

a very dangerous position as far as potentially going to war with iraq iranian officials second that saying we came a place similar role that america back to position forces played in regime change in libya and the current conflict in syria the main support of beasts to reduce groups or counters because they use from that through to access through political ads. new yorker reporter in his article called our men iran reveals how members of m.b. k. were trained by america's joint special operations command in a camp in nevada. this is part of an anteroom policy sanctions on iran a strong but they don't seem to work very well america started using inside agents to destabilize the country and they're using terrorism as a tool and out of those question about ties between israel and iran according to

america's n.b.c. network unnamed u.s. officials confirmed emmy k. was involved in the assassination of a number of iranian nuclear scientists backed by israeli intelligence service mossad by israel secret service this quaint tehran is named after a pair of victim an iranian nuclear scientist killed in his own car this area known as mid and york is a very popular and vibrant place many people pass through here while heading to the mountains resort outside to hear on an ideal location to remind people about something that shouldn't be forgotten or forgiven mohammad says and make a recognized as a democratic alternative to reign in authorities feel surreal to him. like nothing's changed they are terrorist tactics may be changed but still the west uses it to get information to get what they want. and the terrorists he says is likely to keep his brutal ways to. from iran but to

claim shelling in northern syria has killed twenty people eight of them said to be children the province where the alleged attack happened has seen violence escalating recent months rebel fighters have launched an assault to seize several areas close to the turkish border or live to a middle east correspondent. paula what more do we know about the latest violence. what we are hearing reports of this reported massacre that has taken place in the northern part of syria from what we're hearing at least eight children have been killed over that number could be as high as twenty with some forty people being murdered in total the videos and pictures of her witnessing has been posted to you tube but of course it's almost impossible to verify the authenticity the claims are being made by the syrian observatory for human rights the organization known as the age and again it needs to be said that it has given misinformation in the past back in may when there was the houla massacre it came was that some one hundred people

had been killed but later a lot of the massacre look courts around that were found to have been false the russian foreign ministry has warned against this kind of disinformation and this made the point that this organization is spreading information that cannot be absolutely trusted according to the foreign ministry there are only two people who work in this organization and as a result their credibility is questionable the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov has said that there is always a lot of adult when it comes to what is actually happening on the ground in syria who conducts the massacres that is the question of whether or not chemical weapons have been used that is another question and at the moment there is simply no proof of anything but indeed you mentioned chemical weapons there were also recent reports over these kind of weapons being used against our into your search for answers what can you tell us about that. well certainly we've witnessed in the last few days these syrian rebels claiming that the syrian president bashar assad has

been using chemical weapons against them at the same time we've also heard from the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov that he is satisfied that the assad regime has done what it needs to do to put these women we in safe hands as we understand that they've moved to just two locations we're also hearing the same kind of sentiments being expressed by the israeli vice prime minister moshe ya'alon he said that information that assad's regime has used chemical weapons against the militants is most likely true now activists are claiming that the civilians have suffered injuries consistent with exposure to some kind of poisonous gas in here and also from the israeli vice prime minister as that's the opposition has an interest in drawing in international military intervention that each party has its own agenda and its own weight of waging what is essentially an information war again the point needs to be made that we have no independent verification of what

is happening in syria and as the israeli vice prime minister said and to quote him as things stand now we do not have any confirmation or proof that chemical weapons have been used but we definitely following events with concern as indeed all the fact that russia today. apparently believes correspondent paula swear thank you. now there is a growing a global concern over israel's planned settlement expansion it's approved twelve hundred more homes to slim raising fears that two state solution could be lost forever the report later. and our team recalls that more major events from twenty twelve as we take a close look at the u.s. presidential race and the candidates sidelined by the main news outlets that's ahead. deadly rivals for decades. if you had fifteen thousand people killing each other

in any other country there would be diplomats there would be mediators. self-imposed out costs from society i will tell myself am i going to tell my brother understand my. immediate i'm going to leave. the call of my anger and my frustration. that. well into the. truth of the most violent gangs in us history. is just all model kill or be killed with the colors matching the national flag.

but this country uses violence when it reaches and then it legitimizes the violence they are made in america on the ati. choose your language. choose good the consensus. choose the opinions that immigrate to. choose the stories that impact the. choose the access to your.

world news stories for you know hair or not. there's a warning to israel about its settlement expansion is a threat to peace and the two state solution with the palestinians israel's most recent announcement of twelve hundred more homes in east jerusalem brings the total number of housing units in the past few weeks to five and a half thousand well these are illegal under international law around half a million people already live in israeli settlements his campaign says their fate in the expansion of adams have become political bargaining chips. definitely within the vocabulary of talking into the center right voters so i believe that between now and twenty second of january we'll see only an evasion of the discourse from

the prime minister and the round of the issue of settlements i hope that those will stay only messages which are connected to elections and not to the practices on the ground of the five hundred thousand to being divided at all two hundred thousand titles within jerusalem and there is a total agreement with the palestinian side and the negotiations in the past that all the two hundred will stay inside is why we really delineate the borders of jerusalem then we have the three hundred thousand in the west bank those approximately two hundred thousand out of them which are living very close to just sent to the green line would become part of israel within the exchange of territories and my know if your proximately eighty to one hundred thousand israelis which you will have to be evacuated as happened in two thousand and five with our previous government of again shown in which israel evacuated approximately ten thousand which was just a good example for the fact that we can make it so between us in peace will be

standing one hundred thousand is where it's which will have to go over and be accepted and will be. compensated etc i believe that this is something which goes with the national interest of the majority of israelis. egypt's president is trying to rally people behind the new constitution which got over sixty percent backing in a controversial referendum vote turnout was know it clears the way though for a parliamentary election in a country that remains deeply polarized the potence insisting both the poll and charter a deeply flawed and the threat to freedom and angry protesters blocked traffic in cairo on tuesday after. the charter empowers the traditional interests of the chamber to hold legislative powers and time and their house is next within the next two months the opposition is worried that the muslim dominated body which held its first session on wednesday will deal a blow to rights for women and minorities. from the institute of arab and islamic

studies there's a constitutional referendum on both. this is the first. constitution that you have the president cannot. win and cannot. you have a prime minister who is actually empowered to take decisions without going back to the president so it empowers other such as other elected civilian centers of power but you have. elections brought. to become the majority what will happen if these islamist parties could not deliver on the promises of not have a guarantee a better security about their economic conditions i think what will happen the people will vote against them if you look at the voting behavior in egypt the parliamentary elections around seventy percent voted for islamist. parties and in the presidential elections around fifty one percent of the vote is declining going

down mainly because they are not the opposition and they have to deliver on the promises they cannot just for must. not deliver so now people have expectations and they can control politicians. now a movie about osama bin laden's violent demise has spooked the cia website we tell you why americans intelligence community was so worried by what they saw they wanted consider the drama not a documentary what really happened. last summer how long he sustained on mars thanks to bacteria from siberia. and the story of r.t. dot com. russia's upper house of parliament has approved the ban on u.s. citizens adopting russian children draft law as a response to washington's magnitsky act which bans entry and freezes assets on russian officials allegedly involved in human rights violations it option

restrictions go back in the chain and follows its passing in the state duma a week ago spite strong opposition from the campaign is under review now needs presidential approval to become draw the act is named after the. two year old russian boy who died after his adoptive u.s. father left him in a hot day takes a the move deprives thousands of orphans the chance of finding a loving family. a second look now at some other stories making news this hour. when an explosion works at warehouse in nigeria's largest city resulting fire destroyed neighboring buildings and they cost in the short last shaking the windows of homes several kilometers away there are no immediate reports of fatalities at least thirty people have been treated for injuries. a suicide attacker who tried to blow up a u.s. military outpost in afghanistan has killed at least three people and left seven

more injured guards opened fire on a minibus packed with bombs exploding before reaching the entrance to the tempter compound the taliban says it was targeting local police working for the americans there what he want people including six u.s. troops have died in attacks this year in the volatile city near the pakistan border . iran is preparing to go on. naval drills in the gas fields of the strait of hormuz in the persian gulf war ships submarines and missile defense systems will be tested iran says it's a peaceful demonstration of iran's defensive capabilities promising it won't violate international law or will respect the maritime border neighboring countries . with the new year and the hair r.t. is taking stock of the events which shape twenty twelve today we look at the coverage of the u.s. presidential debates and the struggle for those candidates who didn't have

multibillion dollar campaigns to get a voice. we have been running the election of food series for more than two weeks before the election every single day there was a story by a correspondent running wild guests on the show is so outrageous that truck so given the voice through the third parties was exactly what we needed to get the full picture. we are just a couple hours away now from the third party debate as you can see our production crew is busy transforming our studio in a debate floor one of the most important functions of democracy is the debate a lot of discussion about a lot of issues and the more we can open up don't credit institutions like our our

election system which of all the parties to what it might even be considered fringe parties more likely we are to have an open. wide variety of issues rather than a very narrow range people often ask why is it a tool for straight what you know are the right heads in the country to compete and then you have to explain that there are other voices like that they're pushed out of the process because they're not part of the big party machine on foreign policy for example the alternative candidates have clearly been against military intervention is against military expansion ideas that will fly with the four washington establishment the other networks covered president obama and governor romney debating whatever break here in our studios we had two very serious candidates talk about very serious issues that were absent elsewhere everywhere they talked about the n.b.a. they talked about drones to talk about the war on drugs and this is something that we put together because not only do we know there was a point but our audience was asking for it we haven't seen it too much of you in

the mainstream media do you think tomorrow they will be talking about how you did impact. election over that would be the pie in the sky is that the day i would impact the election and let me just give you a chronology of the libertarian party. you know the fact is you go from an annoyance to a spoiler to a player we really need to be bringing third parties fourth parties because parties into that which are blocking traffic reminders of it for first time tonight i think you know. i don't think i feel like this is a win for the american people that we have been able to enter into this race to break into the party and offer the solutions that the american people are clamoring for. when next we tell you the story of two of the most of violent criminal gangs in u.s. history.

it's perched atop a jog under view from the ball scrabble and stretches as far as the i can see up for a city that all of siberia for centuries. it lost its economic importance even before it was bypassed by the chance i bear in railway but the ball's cremains a spiritual center. was scenes like these are a yearly occurrence thousands of orthodox worshippers give themselves implicit water to commemorate the baptism of jesus. in the fifteen eighties the russians had only just conquered siberia taking it from

the muslims. surrounded by enemies the balls to be their stronghold constructed on top of the city but soon enough it became an economic hub siberian fire was the oil of its time bringing in a third of all russia's state revenue but the ball scrimmage location head of the says for the russians are the russian crowds who led a revolt against azhar and eight hundred twenty five known as the decembrists worse than hair and drove there they created a replica high society adopting the latest fashions as soon as they came out or at least once they made it from paris to siberia but the city also served up some bit of irony for the russian royal family after the bolshevik revolution. this is the office was nicholas the second spend most of the last year of his life his whole family had been exiled here they lead a fairly comfortable existence this was

a big house but they weren't allowed to see visitors or go outside themselves leading the ordinary normal countryside life style they even had thoughts of a scape but within the year the czar and his family would be dead.

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